Top 5 Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards that Dominated High School

[@Yugioh2002ds]

Jinzo was the boss cause everybody ran mirror force and magic cylinder

[@onesixfive_165]

And a amplifier

[@mirkosaor]

Why would jinzo be the cause for playing trap cards if he negates them? Did I miss something?

[@marwingnah5806]

@@mirkosaor he meant everyone else played those kinds of traps so Jinzo was good for blocking them

[@mirkosaor]

Marwin Gnah ah lol i read that wrong

[@marwingnah5806]

@@mirkosaor happens lol

[@KozmicHand]

Top 5 Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards that Dominated in Prison

[@Removekebab1000]

Mr Tobi1018 d heroes

[@ruikirisame1744]

Yata-lock

[@casketbase7750]

Definitely not Iron Chains. Even when the Warden cheated, he couldn't win using them.

[@somekindofdude1130]

Dark magician girl Shadow tamer Dark magician girl Medium of the ice barrier Dark magician girl

[@SunvellStudios]

Snatch Steal

[@dawsengoodfellow9891]

I used to play yugioh when I was seven with my older brother with my 15 year old brother. Because I was a stupid kid my mom had to help me play, but my brother would put all of his best cards in one deck and make me use some crummy one. I think he cheated because he used relinquished to take control of ALL my stuff and I couldn't do anything. I didn't care if I lost cuz I just thought the cards were cool, but my mom was pissed that she was losing so she starting buying me yugioh stuff pretty much every time we'd go out into town until I (she) was able to beat my brother. Good times

[@dawsengoodfellow9891]

Jared Dampf He didn't take control of them all at once, but if I remember right he'd do it on my turn too. Doesn't relinquished say once per turn? I'm pretty sure that he was only supposed to use it on his turn, but he used it on my turn too. So I'd kill the thing he took with a bigger monster and then he's take control of the monster that I had just the other monster with.

[@zacharykim295]

Lol your mom was awesome. Wish my mom was as involved in my childhood

[@ImNotJoshPotter]

Zachary Kim that got dark fast

[@nathankeel6667]

In my boy scout trop one of friends decks are a treat because of relinquished but we learned to play around it a year later after i was the one to beat it with mst

[@moaningconservatives1616]

I think he got his rules from the animie (where Pegasus was doing that)

[@maximiliandemarco5869]

My dad got me into the game, we used to play at the kitchen table on weekend mornings and play. He went out and bought some of his own cards and we used to have so much fun. Growing up my favorite cards were Witch of the Black Forest( she’s still my favorite) Magician if faith, Magician of Chaos, Graceful charity. My dad used to play a bunch of lvl 4 2000 def monsters which was always so annoying! I couldn’t consistently get over mystical elves and spirit of the harps.

[@yep2528]

That's kind of sad that most of your favourite cards are banned

[@f.g9698]

You can't dominate high school... ...if you didn't pass middle school first. *Logic*

[@livelife5763]

GAT EM

[@Dingg00se]

In high school, there's always at least 2 kids who play meta decks

[@Awzn123]

DADDY GAMECIEL #TEAMVIRGINITYDESTROYER True story

[@maxclay4132]

I was that kid I played Dino Rabbit my senior year

[@Awzn123]

Lucksworns for me

[@the_trash_mane5875]

Carlos Corona *sacksworns ,same here though

[@rohitsaraf3550]

I am one of them, but i used to make sure not to run them in school.

[@RogueHero]

my high school was definitely a mix of casual and competitive , we had a few people who went to events regularly.

[@nathankeel6667]

I just play at boyscouts its nonexistent in high school were my sencro agusted srucher deck is the best

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

InnovationYGO My high school was casual, until a competitive player joined our club and destroyed us. I then made the jump to competitive while everyone else stayed at casual, so now I'm actually the strongest at my school.

[@t0nje]

YU GI OH IN HIGH SCHOOL? LuL

[@unryzen3083]

@Dovahgatr lol I had a group just like that In florida at a books a million /mcdonalds but now we all go to a LGS and participate in actual OTS Saturday tournaments.

[@unryzen3083]

@Dovahgatr That would be john the blackwing player!

[@ProdCharles]

Back then your skill was determined by how hard you slapped your cards on the field.

[@nyaneclipse9102]

"My favorite format is wind up format, whats yours?" "Oh mine is high-school format"

[@Yohane350]

I remember in HS we all played shit decks that we liked,then one of our friends' parents bought him a top tier deck. After the rest of us kept loosing for a few weeks,we all bought top tier meta ourselves and that's how we first got into the real game.

[@_Shikabane_]

Your story is the exact opposite of mine. I was the first person to embrace archetypes then everyone else had to power up their decks in order to compete with me. by the end of senior year we had a very powerful group of diverse duelists.

[@kenyo1999]

I believe my performapal/Odd-Eyes deck is pretty competitive

[@Medbread]

Kenyo 1999 At high school, maybe. But remember you can only Pendulum Summon one card from the extra deck into the Extra Monster Zone. That in and of itself kind of kills any competitiveness the deck has at locals, let alone YCS.

[@silverfang4583]

Kenyo 1999 oh how cute

[@anon2447]

i wasn't intoa rchetypes but my first foray in yugioh in highschool was a deck that turbo summoned elemental mistress doriado to activate fuh-rin-ka-zan, and recycle dit with mask of darkness plus searched for it with a flip black cat that puts a trap card on top of your deck can't remember name and had secret village of spellcasters to protect my doriado, i actually felt so proud of myself for having figured that one out all by myself, it was so cool when everyonewas just playing the 1900 beatstick deck and saw that my ace monster was a rather hard to summon 1200 weak sauce monster they laughed at and then the elements started destroying them, as time progressed and people went into archetypes my doriadon deck became a djinlock deck and i had so much fun.

[@ArchmageBaenre]

Ordeal of a Traveler was a fantastic stall card for attrition through frustration. The flashbacks.

[@commodore0648]

ArchmageBaenre I remember being frustrated because normally such a card would do something bad for the controller if your opponent called the card right. Not this one! It just allows you to attack once.

[@Zetsuuga]

I met a couple people in college that want to get back into the game and we've been playing with our high school decks. One guy uses Dark Snake Syndome and Ordeal of the Traveler and sometimes it works... We're buying singles now though and working on better stuff. Excellent channel by the way, been marathon-ing all your videos, keep it up mate.

[@TenLittleMen]

Burden of the Mighty was the single most frustrating card to play against when I was in School

[@xaiver7763]

TenLittleMen like seriously

[@bornfromfire9379]

My brother got his hand on 3 of them...

[@expertoflizardcorrugation3967]

TenLittleMen everyone in my group played them except for me the guy who was prone to using larger monsters... One guy had it at three

[@conorfrost6866]

TenLittleMen I love using burden of the mighty cuz one of the people I regularly play against uses a dark magician deck lol

[@Timothan]

When those fuckers were lucky enough to get 2 of them on the field I'd just scoop out of frustration lol

[@angelpixiedust8194]

In my experience: In middle school it was my Ally of Justice Catastor and Earthbound Immortals, it won against that Rock structure deck who was making a mess of the others who used GX era decks. In High School (most of them still play GX era decks), I decided not to play Pendulums to avoid confuse them so I played Kaijus. The other classmates really rely on bringing out boss monsters (sometimes unfluently and difficultly) just to get their monsters tributed.

[@Stogen]

Lightning vortex

[@kylianos3907]

Please... you just triggered my PTSD :(

[@zanir2387]

The King Stogen the raigeki of the poors XD

[@WoogaChan]

OMG SAME

[@DraeonKaiser]

"Haha! I have Destin HERO Dogma out! Pyu can't possibly sto-" "I discard a card to activate lightning vortex!" "... Damn"

[@yugislavia9870]

@@zanir2387 Raigeki was banned for some time you know

[@kevinflorence4639]

I used Scrap Iron Scarecrow. My personal most hated card was my one friend who had 3 Man Eater Bug and dark hole.

[@xbotscythe]

Kevin Florence Vietnam flashbacks

[@juvduhdihwihi333]

This one hahaha

[@gordonbman2911]

I always hummed "man eater-Nelly furtado" when someone dared to attack my favourite face-down card xP it makes u cut cards

[@WestonEvans]

I always ran it until I got swords of revealing lighted and had to destroy one of my own men.

[@SigTheSauceMan]

Man-Eater Bug? No-one's run that since 2005.

[@hnicholson999]

The top 5 cards that dominated my high school was no joke, all 5 Exodia pieces. And I was the guy who ran 3 destiny hero defenders.

[@GearGuardianGaming]

hnicholson999 I ran defender and creature swap with exodia. that was so fun..."why did you give me your wall?" *reveals exodia a few turns later* you're a dick.

[@zerox8413]

Combined 3 D Hero Defender and 3 Greed trap card to make it painful for opponent 😏

[@chickenalakingina]

Back then, umi and burn decks were everywhere. If you couldn't beat daedalus or those damn stealth birds or god forbid that penguin that returns 2 cards, you were dead.

[@kylepieterse3011]

You can win every game if you're ace card is a gun...you can selectively draw it at any point too!

[@simonlarimore1770]

I’m currently a sophomore, and two of my proudest moments of High School Yu-Gi-Oh! are a scapegoat combo that put co-linked Transcode and Decode Talkers on the field and Number 71 top decking into number C101. I taught those to my friends and they spread like wildfire, especially the first one because it came in a structure deck

[@arjanzweers6542]

For me High School meta was Thousand-Eyes Restrict, Jinzo, Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning and Scape Goat with your occasional Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity or Delinquent Duo

[@coffeeboi4309]

So... You played goat

[@arjanzweers6542]

Yes I did...I know I'm old...

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

Arjan Zweers Mine was Swords of revealing light, monster reborn, mirror force, raigeki, and dark hole.

[@TheGrandmasterfro]

BANNED, jeez all those shits were banned

[@nikkiglitch]

For my middle/high school, everyone who played had cyber dragons. It was definitely a weird time

[@kryzethx]

Solar flare dragon was spot on for number 1. My favorite high school past times were pitting my warrior deck against my friend's pyro deck, and we were surprisingly well matched. I tipped the scales in my favor after I got the dark world structure deck tho lol. Discard Grapha, pop a back row, quick summon back to the field, attack, if sakuretsu armor, resummon next turn; it was great :D

[@davidreyna6859]

Wow... I wish that Yu-Gi-Oh was popular in my high school... Nugh... YOU PLAYED COMPETITIVELY LUCKY😢

[@PatrickCervantez]

David Reyna I know, I might have stuck with the game if I had people to play it. All my friends stuck with Pokemon or switched to CoD.

[@gerking195]

Am in school rn and the only people who played Yu-Gi-Oh left last year

[@blackenedtiamat2807]

Making up the effects or the attacks based off the artwork? "Skull Servant, Nipple Pinch attack NOW!"

[@supremeking1730]

Before Creator got an errata, he was the best revival card because you discarded the card before you chose your target.

[@TMXFroZeN]

Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, Raiza the Storm Monarch, Jinzo, Neo-Spacian Grand Mole, Cyber Dragon. Oh god, there is so much more. Everyone played like same staple spell and trap line up.

[@Lyeit]

Freshman and sophomore year of high school, so fall of 2005 until summer 2007, my local high school meta was all tribal based. You had the spellcasters deck, the gadget deck, the dragon deck, and I had the warrior deck for the longest time. Lots of kit bashing of recent structure decks along with support from older sets that we'd had on hand for a while. Gadgets were efficient but prone to hand disruption. Dinosaurs with their new structure deck were super aggressive but had trouble coming back from a board wipe. I just played marauding captains, command knights and enough equip magic to edge out the opponents board.

[@maximilianborst5441]

I got a fire deck with 3 solar flare drakes in it from my older brother and i was so happy to see this card here but i had it even in late elementary school.

[@geminihero]

I was lucky....I got my hands on black luster soldier- envoy of the beginning....out of a pack!...when I was in high school.....unfortunately though I was too nervous to play him because we had a lot of people stealing stuff in my high school....

[@cb3256]

In High school I ran Legendary ocean+tornado wall with a deck built about supporting fish/aquas and preventing tornado wall removal. Beating the one kid that brought xyz and pendulum decks (that I hated because muh OG powercreep is bad) using cards that old was satisfying.

[@AustinDarkFire]

Me and my friends dominated my high school with the Egyptian god card. I had the winged dragon of ra while my other two friends had sky dragon and tormentor. Fun times :)

[@DanteDemonZ]

Future Fusion and Chimeratic Overdragon were what I used to dominate the crew back in the school yard, though my friend did have this fake Exodia with 'Infinity' attack and defence which he managed to persuade us was actually legit. So we all ran draining shields and magic cylinders, ahh those were the days, before rules and meta and it costing an arm and a leg xD

[@StarboyXL9]

lol I bet that fake exodia was the shit. Once he's out you know that godlike power can end you, but all it takes is a draining shield and then a sakuretsu armor and you win! XD

[@failatlife1]

One of my high school friends was a bit more serious about Yugioh than the rest of us, in that he actually bought modern cards and we were for the most part stuck with older cards because we only started playing again because he got us back into it. He actually invited us over to his house once for a huge trading party where he basically gave us whatever cards we wanted (within reason) from his massive collection, but one card that we still struggled to deal with was the god damn Seal of Orichalcos. We had such a hard time getting rid of this thing, it essentially meant a game over if he managed to draw it, since his decks were largely more consistent than ours and had stuff like Xyz's and Synchros in it, whereas we were all stuck with normal monsters, effect monsters, and MAYBE a fusion monster here and there. We each had a few removal cards, but we had to play 2 of them at the same time, and that didn't happen very often since we were all playing 50+ cards in our deck or thereabouts. I have no idea how good this card ACTUALLY is since i'm DEFINITELY not a professional player or anything close to it, but I know that in high school, this card was a MASSIVE pain in the butt for me and my friends.

[@Medbread]

My high school meta is: 5: ABC 4: Trickstars 3: Blue Eyes Chaos Max 2: Zoodiac 1: True Draco If I were to put the era where I played using booster packs and structure decks, it’d be my 4th grade meta. Although we had a smaller group of Yugioh players, so each of these decks were used by only one person respectively. 5: Six Samurai 4: Destiny End Dragoon Turbo 3: Agents (The principal. He organized tournaments after school and was an avid player. He threw in the Shonen Jump Obelisk the Tormentor in there and it was pretty hard to beat) 2: Monarch 1: Lightsworn (Michael, best kid in school)

[@landkon2254]

??? Your principal was lit

[@sablonanime650]

Silver Fang Done worry we always have dark law

[@silverfang4583]

Sablonanime thanks for revealing the answer

[@sablonanime650]

Silver Fang no problem

[@StarboyXL9]

@ ??? WHAT. THE. FUCK? YOUR PRINCIPLE PLAYED? DUDE, BEST PRINCIPLE EVER! My buddy also played Agents, funny enough was around the same time as I had gotten back into the game and was playing Dark Worlds. We had a blast, mostly with him kicking my ass!

[@sleepingforest8214]

Loved The card- “Blast held by Tribute” back it the day !

[@joshmcdaniel7219]

I just graduated in 2016 and believe it or not all my friends played 5ds decks or newer and I played a old style dark magician fusion deck and kicked but every day at the lunch table

[@mr_sn4k3s]

dunno why but I leave you on in the background most of the time because your voice is extremely soothing to me, so thanks for that.

[@AllThingsEntertaining]

I recall that three of the most prominent cards I've seen during high school were The Dark Door, Vengeful Bog Spirit, and Level Limit Area - B. The Dark Door only allowed you to attack with one monster so combined with this card plus something equally vicious like Ordeal of the Traveler or Wave Motion Cannon it was a force to be reckoned with. Vengeful Bog Spirit prevented your opponent from attacking with monsters the turn they're summoned. Much like Hearthstone's or Magic's sleeping sickness effect. And Level Limit Area - B was so versatile that it was limited on the ban list at one point. Other noteworthy cards were Vampire Lady, Gilasaurus, Reflect Bounder. Vampire Lady was such a good card back then because milling your opponent's cards was pretty good. The thing about Vampire Lady was it gave your opponent the option to discard the card and they didn't have to shuffle their deck. Gilasaurus was a card that netted early game advantage if you played it. Mot of the time, you would use this for tribute fodder turns 1 or 2. This card was dead after that since cards were being sent to the grave and giving your opponent a free Monster Reborn wasn't viable. Reflect Bounder wasn't as common as the rest of these but I do remember it. Sure you would take minor damage, but it basically prevented your opponent from killing it with anything more then 2000 ATK because they would just take 2000 damage and the monster would die. The last card I want to mention is Twinheaded Beast. Much like Reflect Bounder, it wasn't terribly common, and when you saw it your opponent pretty much had to deal with it. A monster that did 3400 points of direct damage was pretty strong. However the downside is that this card is a level 6 monster.

[@Darknight2583]

Ha! YuGiOh wasn't even out when I was in HS... man that makes me old... But when it did, I got owned by Yata-Garasu and Chaos Emperor Dragon at my locals. Nothing feels as bad as not being able to do anything while not having any cards in hand.

[@GearGuardianGaming]

Darknight 238 goat era. nice to see another old player.

[@johnhakari2532]

You earned yourself a sub from me. It's crazy how similar everyone's youthful yugioh experiences were

[@DesperateOak48]

I was playing Yu-Gi-Oh in high school about 4 years ago, and Yosenju constantly kicked my butt. I also had a deck build from various different packs and the The Agent structure deck

[@cesaramaro6933]

In middle/high school I was the kid introducing meta. Well at least until my sophomore year three years ago when I stopped playing. I was practically the kid to beat during that time. It was always a big deal when someone got close to winning me. My favorite deck was a Six Samurai deck, it was lovely.

[@zachf.7854]

Back in highscool my first deck was biult by buying 3 of the "onslaught of the fire kings" structure deck, and making a deck from the guts of that deck. For a while said deck actually managed to somehow compete with meta decks at the time (such as dragon rulers), after yaksha and island came out i adjusted it and the deck was able to outspeed the rank 4 toolbox, and now with advarta its a pretty decent anti-meta board whipe spam deck (epmphasis on the nuke spam) hand traps still Rekt me though, good for me that some have been limited.

[@justvibing2738]

I'm in my senior year of high school. A couple years back when we had an actual "Yu-Gi-Oh scene", we played with competitive rulings, but we never really had a metagame. I play HEROs, the former top player at my school played Six Sams and Yosenjus, one kid played Dinomist

[@appeljuicesurf]

I play ordeal in a goat deck with sinister. So you only keep 1 other card type (than monster) in your hand and you always have a 50/50 to bounce something back. Thats actually pretty good.

[@mariotrujillo1673]

We knew most of the cards in our friends deck and their strategies. My high school was made of two camps of players trumpcarders and kitchensinker. Trumpcarders were the ones who built their decks around one, two or three uber cards and the rest was soully used to stall until they break it out. The kitchensinker were the ones who threw in every rare or powerful card they could find and just kept beating down your life points.

[@michaelswagger5667]

I played YGO casually back in high school, but most of my playgroup played competitively together. They would use lunch as the time to playtest, so even though I played casually with them they would play meta, and it got to where even though I only played at one of my friends house or at school I had multiple T1-T2 decks. I learned quite a bit, then as high school went along, I transitioned more into playing Magic casually and then now I play it competitively, and really don't play Yugioh other then I keep a GOAT format deck put together for when people come into the LGS I work at.

[@steelrain2061]

It's funny cuz wave-mation cannon is pretty meta now with mystic mine

[@KaiserKenshi]

The good old memories, i remember having to make an alternative deck to play with my friends and the best part about that is that i made that deck using my favorite cards all along wich included horus, the creator and d.hero plasma. The creator was totally a monster on that deck since it allowed me to revive my d.hero disk comander for +2draws, or my E.hero stratos who could search me a dasher and instantly hit the field, and also with dasher's effect, once destroyed he make it easier to summon the creator, jinzo or horus lv6 without any tributes, on top of that thanks to the creator i could recycle that effect. Oh boy. i miss the old days.

[@snowyinferno]

I remember a buddy of mine that sidedecked an ordeal of a traveler in his chaos dragons deck in a locals one time. We laughed our socks off coz he told me a guy predicted his hand wrong by calling Spell. 😂

[@hughjakeman5296]

my group of friends which was like 5 people were really the only ones we could ever find to play with sadly, and after going from 5th grade to freshman year it became hard to really keep up with all the new releases the game had and we all kind of gave up on the game. we got back into it for a bit, but transitioned to magic shortly aftet. I will always be a huge fan of this game... and envoy of the beginning is my all time favorite... obvious answer maybe, but to be fair I also have axe raider on my list for looks alone. lol

[@Destroyer_of_Worlds]

I didn't get into dueling until college. 1 guy played Cyber Dragons, one ran Blue-eyes for a while, I ran basically whatever. Water deck, Vehicleroids, Anti-cure, Shaddoll. I usually run Card Advance in any deck to peek at my next 5 cards and arrange them however I want.

[@Krebons1200]

My high school dominate strategy was a Krebons stalling with the Charging Cell until I drew Armored Axon Kicker. It was surprisingly effective since so few people wanted to expend a spell or trap getting rid of a level two monster, even though I always used that strategy, and it almost always went the same way.

[@malcolmrff]

I have a pyro/machine deck and it's fantastic. Three backfire trap cards and tons of weak fire monsters that deal 500 damage on their own when sent to the graveyard plus backfire. And then Blaze phoemnix, the burning bombardment bird has its own craziness on top of everything

[@GeargusArchfiend]

Ordeal was the worst! Thank goodness for Ancient Gear Engineer.

[@the_trash_mane5875]

Solemn brigade,Shi En,and dark hole as of now. Am a senior in prison

[@wolfox7776]

A D/D/D WITH AN UNREASONABLY LONG NAME Shi En was and is Just a good card

[@the_trash_mane5875]

Wolfox theres a lot of dumb asses who cant out it

[@johnmccain4459]

A D/D/D WITH AN UNREASONABLY LONG NAME I used to dominate in year 9 with Shi En and Gateway. Except against my mate who had a meta neo heroes deck. I think someone helped me restructure my deck at an event and I started winning more than half of the time against him though.

[@the_trash_mane5875]

John McCain some dood at my school still runs samurais,He sorts gets steam rolled by D/D/D always. Poor dood

[@flygonkick93]

Lol dino deck smashes everything

[@scorpshade6123]

I ran all these carda in high school across different decks but still.....also in reference to the middle school video it astounds me looking back how much i misunderstood about how the cards worked and what they did ... actually when i first got into yugioh id play it with the kids on the bus to and from school and we played like duelist kingdom rules but no life points instead the winner was the person with the least monsters in thier graveyard by the end of the bus ride

[@SomeRandomBlackNerd]

I only recently graduated but when I went, my high school had a gaming club, where people could come in after school and play whatever largely. So me and a group of friends started up a small Yu-Gi-Oh league when I began to get back into the game. (albeit I was the only one who began to play competitively) I started off with the blue eyes and synchron structure decks and eventually worked up to my odd eyes magicians (still play them to this day btw) my friends always said I was O.P because of anything pendulum and stardust warrior😂

[@juanpablomartin1140]

Me and my friends played Yu-Gi-Oh in elementary school in the Xyz era, and since most of us had some form of Xyz deck with whatever else we threw in we had a hard time dealing with Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon which made it very difficult to use effects. In Middle school we had pendulums, well I did. I used a Perfomapal deck and I was pretty good at using it. I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh for awhile and still don't play it as often. I currently play Vanguard in my high school as it's pretty popular in certain pockets.

[@slenderminion2229]

I remember back in high school there was one year where Yu-Gi-Oh! was *everywhere* on school grounds. You could literally go into any room and if there wasn't a class going on, there was at least one duel you could watch. More or less everyone played it for the entire year, but once the year was over it vanished completely. Went as quickly as it came.

[@DuraluminBurner]

Hell yes. I had 3 solar flare dragons in my deck and dominated everything. Granted, no one in my high school played competively, but it was still great. Also, I loved using Creator. 100% loved that card.

[@DocDoesGamingTV]

I remember one guy who was dominanting with a fire deck, funnily enough it landed in the washing machine

[@RyuseiiTheCrimsonKing]

Solar Flare was the key card back in my burn deck as a kid, won many tournaments and casual battles with it and stealth bird

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

Use to run it with golden armor, mwah ha ha

[@MegaDrain]

I'm very much a casual player and my deck still has most of the cards I used in high school with a bit of variation to make it more viable against other rogue decks or if I play the game online. The Creator is still in there either as an easy level 8 sacrifice for chaos form or do as it's intended. Wildheart was/still is extremely useful because despite his effect, none of my friends played him because they hated GX and therefor every Elemental Hero. So ever since it's GX ever came out, i've been the token HERO player and thus given me a huge advantage with the cluster fuck of fusions it has.

[@Vyse195]

I play my frist year of high school and then I stopped when Syncros were introduced? I'm not aginst Syncros or anything I just stopped. My job and volunteer work got in the way to often, and by the time I had time agian there were new rules and my deck was out of date.

[@VitoBurrito]

Sakurezu Armor one of the classic cards everybody owned. And Either wildheart or Pitch Black Panther or whats his name is, were immune!! I really wanted some kind of cards like these when I was in High school...

[@tytantyphlosion2910]

I’m high school my meta was comprised of character based decks (I.e. kaiba, yugi, mai, etc) and occasional burn decks. Kids would try to decimate with ocean dragon lord bro Daedalus as well. Towards the end of high school kids were running e heroes, dragon variants, and half assed cyber dragon decks.

[@brandonguthrie8122]

Goblin attack force, marauding captain, United we stand, axe of despair, torrential. My friend had a competitive warrior deck that was really hard for most decks too beat. I played f,i,n,a,l for some time and enjoyed people not knowing what to do against it lol I almost forgot Jinzo :)

[@karl_boss]

Got into it during 6th Form. Me and my friends just net decked. Ah fun times. 11 years later nothings changed.

[@UnicornGamingRX03]

The card which dominated in my highschool in Australia was my Stardust dragon and stardust dragon assault mode because I play them. No one at my school had an answer for it as they played the old original yugioh 60 card decks. Fun fact: I had a 40 card empty jar deck and milled a 60 card deck of a casual deck.

[@DarkJusticeMetal]

Man, high school. I started playing again in 2008 and graduated in 2010 and that was near the end of the 5Ds era. Here's my list: 1. Iron Chain Dragon. As long as it dealt damage, it milled three. No one could afford Lightsworns back then, so this card was always a good idea. 2. Treeborn Frog. Frognarchs all the way, baby. Also Enemy Controller to steal your opponent's monsters when monsters rarely had protection against targeting effects and you had Swap Frog, Dupe Frog, and Ronintoadin to increase consistency and Tribute fodder. 3. Colossal Fighter. This card's availabilty just made this the go-to Synchro Monster when Stardust or RDA isn't available, even though removal was super prevalent. 4. Quickdraw Synchron. This card being easily available and the monsters you could summon with it being in low rarity thanks to Duelist Pack Yusei made this card an easy pick. 5. Gravity Bind. Antimeta strats seemed to be super popular around high school. Probably because of the ease of access of these cards and their effectiveness. Just don't let them summon Black Rose Dragon.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

I was running Lightsworn as a senior with JD at 3, Honest at 3, Heavy Storm not banned, Trunade not banned, Brain Control at 1, Reborn at 1, basically all the broken stuff. Dominated just about everything I played against with it. It was stupidly strong in a meta where Glads and accidentally decking myself out were the biggest threat to me. Triple JD OTKs were fun when I got all 3 out.

[@toastyheretic3941]

Everyone who plays yugioh at my high school runs Dino’s it’s just mirror matches

[@BushSage]

In high school I played a scrapped together Synchro deck with Synchrons and Junk monsters and was best of my casual friends, then there was my meta homie who always slapped us around.

[@selahgreen9648]

Red-eyes archfiend was powerful as hell no one knew what Gemini monsters were when we were playing it so we read normal summon like you could just summon it with no tribute and it had the affect of nuking the field, man won a lot of games in highschool by summoning it before it got raigeki

[@scarmvt]

I played heroes in high school. especially in nekroz format. My buddies played battlin' boxers, infernoids, and rit beasts. it was lit

[@GG_Zichi]

Solar Flare Dragon, the memories. I used to play the first one together with a Gravity Bind face down. Was a lot of fun.

[@gaaraofthedesert801]

My high school had few players. My friends and I were a mix of casual and competitive. One of the more dominant cards was my Red Eyes Darkness Dragon.

[@christophhofland8890]

in my highschool it was always a no tribute buff race normally using dark blades (i think it was called,) and executioners axes with as much removal/card draw as you could possibly get. stuff like three harpies feather dusters and black holes were really common in those games.oh and trap holes, yumi ships, gierfried the iron knight. I played a weird stall deck using sasuke samurai and another monster I can't remember for the life of me that let me flip opponents face-up card face down when it was flipped on the field and it allowed me to flip it back over at the end of my turn. Basically a somewhat weaker version of swarm of scarabs. the end goal was buffing up sasuke samurai to a 3500 monster with three executioners axes. i might have gotten some of the card names wrong, tis been awhile.

[@GearGuardianGaming]

Christoph Hofland guardian sphinx is the monster you were thinking of. it was actually a really good card for the time. then, subterrors came along.

[@christophhofland8890]

@@GearGuardianGaming Close! guardian was a fine card tried to add to my deck as a mill secondary win condition. I replaced guardian with the card i mentioned since mill wasn't as good to my mind as simply blowing up all the monsters my opponent laid down with sasuke samurai. should have mentioned it but didn't at the time the entire deck was made to counter the no trib high control decks around my school at the time using Gravity Bind.

[@kevinalbarn120]

me and my friends used those cards back in high school too xD good times, and now i feel nostalgic, good video my friend (y)

[@silverdragonwolf1]

A strategy that my brother and I would use on each other was summoning the Wall of illusion in Face Up defense position, we didn't know you weren't allowed to do that because the rule books didn't seem to mention it and that's how they did it in the show, and then equip it with The Heart of Clearwater. This tactic would drive everyone who faced it crazy. When Yu-Gi-Oh! came out my brother, myself and our friends were all in High Shcool. A tactic my b brother was fond of once he got the cards was equipping up Hayabusa Knight with Buster Rancher, it was actually a pretty terrrifying combo at the time for us.

[@oranbluethorn3956]

One day, as i never played this in high school, i was walking and saw one of my friends dueling another kid on the floor, in the hall, teachers and students circled around as if it was a brawl. My friend was running...i think it was Harpies, but the other kid was running a stall for EXODIA deck. We watched a good 20 minutes after class for them to finish because the staller, after losing and checking his deck, had shuffled the left arm to the very bottom of the deck and bricked because of it, everybody was cheering and laughing before going to class as if nothing happened. It was...quite odd to say the least, and my very first experience of Yugioh Well worth spending 20 minutes of class on a stall v harpie lady fight

[@ashblack8561]

High school was fun because we played with the most broken rules. Can't run monsters into each other, you can Normal and Tribute same turn, when you hand runs out you can draw 5, traps can be played same turn they were set, you can destroy your own set spell/traps so long as that doesn't proc an effect, and I'm sure there was more but those were the main rules we used to get as many duels in before lunch was over.

[@Kunx990]

My high school was low level competitive, but I always stuck it out with Warrior Toolbox as it was cheap and effective and most people would scoop once I have Captain Lock up. Best play was always Torrential your own Wildheart.

[@Natehenryyy1]

Cyber-stein, every time my friends would open up with it it was game over for me. I remember even a gameboy game back in the days of battle city tournament even when mokuba would open up with cyber-stein I would have to scoop to the weakest of duelists .

[@KingNexusMOCs]

Oh man. I HATED Ordeal and Wave Motion Cannon. Didn't run into Ordeal too much thankfully. But wave motion always got played right after I used up my spell/trap removals. UGH I hate that card. Great video! The nostalgia is great.

[@KuKuKlock123]

I remember playing Fissure x3, Compulsory x3, Book of Moon x3, dudes at my locals were like those cards are trash and making fun of me... and then gadget topped SJC with the exact same build and now I'm a genius 😂 back then it was strategy that won games, now it's all about wombo combos

[@travisbur7110]

KuKuKlock123 well strategy and wombo combos

[@nah2601]

KuKuKlock123 chain burn uses a strategy.

[@gavinvick3592]

My friend made this Battlin Boxer deck and it was unstoppable. He literally never lost a game after that deck

[@noahtackett6264]

For my high school, only a handful of people played yugioh, and one played a quasar turbo, and since Legendary Dragons hadn't come out yet, my deck was a suckier version of what it is now. I had dark worlds(not Danger! Dark Worlds, it's basically just the structure deck with another copy of dark world lightning, and now Forced Requisition because that's really fun in Dark Worlds), I had HEROs, and I had a traditional format dragon deck(that one still has ultimate offering, but back then it also had monster reborn and solemn judgment because they were both banned), but really, my best deck was my weird, lesser version of my DM Chaos deck, that had so many inconsistency issues, because if I couldn't get out Summoner Monk, I basically lost, because I needed that to thin out the deck and go into r4 plays(all I really had typically were Utopias, but I also had a Shark Drake in there because it was one of the better r4 monsters I had, and could do it in one turn if I ss kagetokage with the summon of summoner monk and used the monk's effect. I still run kagetokage because it's a lv4, dark, and can speed up some of my plays. Didn't really use shark drake much until I was playing against people in my college dorm, but when I did use it, people got scared lol, and that's before I get out 3 DM and a BLS(it was still at 1 then lol)), but when it worked, it worked too well and wrecked every deck it went against on a good day. When it bricked, it bricked so hard I couldn't do anything. Now, that deck has been fixed to where even if I brick, I can still do something. I want to see how well it does against those people I played against lol But my high school was mostly an MTG place honestly

[@kenofjustice212]

I remember that A Hero Emerges was THE card back in the day. Everyone who had it ran the maximum amount they could find. Because of this, we could play big monster decks that used The Creator, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, and a bunch of dig dragons. And where there are dragons, there will be kids who play Buster Blader. Also, because of the reliance on big monsters, cards like Spirit Reaper, Marshmallon, and Nimble Momonga / Giant Germ were everywhere. Oh, and there was always that one asshole who brought water with Tornado Walls.

[@sebman6031]

I live in México, I only played yugioh from elementary to middle school. In those the usual was to play with bootleg cards in english, so we were playing knowing just the most basic rules and understanding half of the effects. The funny thing is that in those times, bootleg premade decks that we bought were always the japanese strucktured ones but translated to english, (I remember how my most preciated deck was the Marik one) Is not like we could not afford some of the real ones, in fact I already was having a small collection of autentic structure decks and loose cards, but playing with the bootleg ones were just a lot more fun since you could have various copies of very rare cards instead of play wih your crappy kaiba evolution deck against your cousin with a joey wheeler starter deck

[@QPoily]

Wave Motion Cannon + Solar Flare Dragon were my go-to cards in the YGO DS games. Game me very consistent and safe wins.

[@Br0oham]

Possessed Dark Soul was what I used, it got the job done, tribute to take control of all face-up level 3 and lower monsters my opponent controls... Too OP

[@MultiSkidding]

I remember taking Normal Monster Beatdown to the final of a tournament in high school, where I got 2-0'd by a Blue Eyes player. That was pretty fun

[@Gold139]

ah the nostalgia. My first competitive deck was pyro burn deck with solar flare and kurenai + ring of destruction.

[@ZaoJin]

Literally every single person who played YGO in my HS had at least one deck running Jinzo, was a nightmare if you had no answer for him...

[@brandonreeds9587]

I was the first kid in my group to get Jinzo. Basically my parents gave me 20$ every other week for school lunches. I just didn't eat at school and saved the money for yugioh cards. I ended up paying 15$ for a Jinzo and it frustrated them all so much 😄😄

[@blubbfisch98]

I think I went on a elite primary school for Yu-Gi-Oh. We played according to the rules from the very beginning (neglecting the banlist) and even in 4th grade, there were a lot of decent meta-decks.

[@tmpcreep1856]

I remember having a marshmellon stall deck that only won by Wave Motion Cannon that I took to a regional and went about 50-50 in my matchups I believe this was early 2014.

[@DAsrada]

I built a really janky old Warrior Deck back in high school, built around Wild Heart, a bunch of cards like Command Knight and Marauding Captain, and spells like The A Forces. Essentially the idea was to ONLY run Level 4s, and simply make them implausibly huge for the time.